Divvy bikes fit people of almost all sizes. Photo by Mike Travis (mikeybrick).

Divvy released the 2013 trip data on Tuesday for their data challenge, and presented alongside me the data, basic system operations info, and existing visualizations and apps, at a Divvy data-focused Open Gov Hack Night I put together at the weekly meeting. Thank you Chris Whitaker at Smart Chicago Collaborative for writing the meeting recap.

I “ran the numbers” on some selected slices of the data to post on Twitter and they range from the useless to useful! I’m using the hashtag #DivvyData.

Average trip distance of members in 2013 is estimated to be slightly shorter than casuals: 1.81 miles versus 1.56 miles – tweet

Bike 321 has traveled the furthest: 989 miles. Beat the next bike by 0.2 miles – tweet

Women members on average took longer trips (but fewer trips overall) on @DivvyBikes than men in 2013. – tweet

The average trip distance of 759,788 trips (by members and casuals) in 2013 is an estimated 1.68 miles. – tweet

In 2013, 79.05% of member trips were by men and 20.95% by women. – tweet